Titled IMAGINE (Innovative Medical Application on Gait using Intelligent Engineering), the challenge asks engineers, doctors and teams including a doctor and an engineer to submit a proposed research project that uses the eGaIT mobile sensor based gait analysis System prototype. The system provides objective gait parameters that have the potential to be used for diagnostic application and individual therapy monitoring for patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.
The proposed research project should address patients’ need – to be measured with eGaIT – generating an algorithmic solution. In other words, if you are a doctor, how would you integrate the system into your research? Define a clinical research question. If you are an engineer, how would you generate algorithms for clinical use? Define a novel algorithmic solution.
The proposals will be judged by a panel of experts. The best three proposals will be invited to a week-long stay at FAU to present their concept and to meet the local researchers. Thereafter, the overall winner will be selected. During their stay, the contestants will be welcome to visit relevant research groups and laboratories at FAU, discuss their projects, explore possibilities for future collaboration or career development, and get to know the cultural and culinary highlights of Germany and Bavaria.
More information about the FAU Open Research Challenge including deadlines will be published on www.openresearchchallenge.org in the coming weeks.
